Schedule posts in bulk (legacy)

Have you tried our Bulk Composer yet? It's an improved version of our bulk uploading tool that lets you preview, edit, and add images to your posts before scheduling.

Schedule up to 350 posts at a time to your social networks by uploading pre-populated comma separated value (.csv) files into the bulk uploader. Images cannot be included in the bulk files, but can be added after the upload, by editing your scheduled posts in the Publisher. Bulk scheduling is available for Hootsuite Professional plans and up.

Create your .csv files with Google Docs, TextEdit (1.7 and above) or TextWrangler. Excel files are incompatible as they don’t support exporting in UTF-8 and convert certain characters into unreadable fonts.

Smart quotes need to be disabled in TextEdit and on Mac keyboards, as these cause bulk scheduling to fail.

A maximum of 350 posts can be bulk scheduled at a time. This could be 350 posts to 1 social network, or 50 posts to 7 social networks. However, any scheduled posts already in your dashboard for those social networks need to be subtracted from the 350. For example, if there are 100 posts already scheduled to your Twitter profile, you could bulk upload 250 more posts to it. There is no limit to the number of posts that can be manually scheduled in addition to the 350 after bulk uploading.

Note that link preview images are not generated when bulk scheduling. To generate preview images, edit your scheduled posts in the Publisher after bulk uploading.

To schedule in bulk

Select Publisher from the launch menu.

Under Content Sources, click Bulk Message Upload.

Click Choose File, select your csv file, and then click Open.

Select the date format used in the .csv file.

Select the social network(s) to publish the posts (only one Twitter profile can be selected), and then click Submit.